Benefit reading to raise money to buy Ken Kesey Collection

by KVAL.com staff

A reading of Ken Kesey's unpublished works Thursday night will raise money to keep a collection of typewritten manuscripts, cartoons, art, photos and letters spanning four decades at the University of Oregon.

Tsunami Books on Willamette Street is hosting an event at 7 p.m. Thursday.

"The University of Oregon has the unique opportunity to purchase the Ken Kesey Collection and keep it in its current home, Knight Library, as Kesey wished," event organizers said in a press release. "Without community awareness and support, these papers will be gone from Oregon forever."